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AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire sales 1 May 2012. This is GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 200 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 28.17 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

General info Technical specs Memory Benchmarks Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

115

Architecture

GCN

Code name

Wimbledon XT

Type

Laptop

Release date

1 May 2012

Technical specs

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2560

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

850 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

of 14000

Shared memory

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

11.1

Video card benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

27.99

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

11119

3DMark Vantage Performance

31127

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Fortnite

2018

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Fortnite official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum HD Graphics 4000

recommended GeForce GTX 660

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)

2017

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce GTX 960

recommended GeForce GTX 1060

Overwatch

2016

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Overwatch official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum HD Graphics 4400

recommended GeForce GTX 660

GTA V

2015

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to GTA V official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce 9800 GT

recommended GeForce GTX 660

Rainbow Six Siege

2015

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Rainbow Six Siege official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce GTX 460

recommended Radeon HD 7970

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

2014

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce 6800

recommended GeForce 8800 GT

Dota 2

2013

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Counter-Strike: GO official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

recommended GeForce 6600

League of Legends

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to League of Legends official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce 6150

recommended GeForce 8800 GT

Minecraft

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Minecraft official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum Radeon HD 2400

recommended Radeon HD 5970

Diablo III

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Diablo III official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce 7800 GT

recommended Radeon HD 4870

FPS tests

Real world test results of Diablo III on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire.

medium / 768p

243

high / 768p

238

ultra / 1080p

194

Mass Effect 3

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to Mass Effect 3 official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce 7900 GT

recommended GeForce 9800 GT

FPS tests

Real world test results of Mass Effect 3 on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire.

high / 768p

ultra / 1080p

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

2011

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

recommended GeForce GTX 260

FPS tests

Real world test results of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire.

medium / 768p

high / 768p

ultra / 1080p

StarCraft 2

2010

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to StarCraft 2 official system requirements.

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

minimum GeForce 7600 GT

recommended GeForce GTX 650

FPS tests

Real world test results of StarCraft 2 on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire.

medium / 768p

137

high / 768p

136

ultra / 1080p

120

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

105.36 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

103.69 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

101.1 %

AMD Radeon R9 M395X

100 %

AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

99.33 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

91.2 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870

90.56 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 970M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our rating.